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The press Leveson wants to regulate soon won’t exist on paper. By ignoring the web, his proposals are out of date

They’re wrong, they’re wrong, they’re all so very wrong. The people who think press regulation is inevitable and essential, the people who think it’s the end of the world. All of them. They’re blinkered, deluded, living in the past. They fail to notice, wilfully or otherwise, not an elephant in the room, but a whole herd of elephants knocking the room down.

I can name a few of these elephants easily because they’re in front of me right now, on the bookmarks bar of my internet browser. Let’s start with the websites of The Guardian, BBC News, Sky News and